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The Debut
July 2008 will be remembered as the Month of Mendis. Thus far secure reputations took a battering as Ajantha Mendis put India's batsmen to the sword: first the one-day marauders in the Asia Cup final, and then the real deal, the Fab Four, in the SSC Test. The batsmen's energies were mostly spent trying to read what Mendis was going to bowl - in itself a feat calling for considerable skill. Even if they did read him, it amounted to nothing: Mendis still managed to beat them in the flight, and bowl accurately, giving away no free runs. In the SSC Test, his first, he bowled 45.5 overs, which included a total of two bad deliveries. He took 6 for 13 in the Asia Cup final, and two four-fors at the SSC, comprehensively deceiving Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman twice each, mention of which he wouldn't mind on his gravestone.
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